[单项选择]According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they______.


A. counted the number of pencils of each color
B. guessed at the total number of pencils
C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils

[单项选择]According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they ______.


A. counted the number of pencils of each color
B. guessed at the total number of pencils
C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils

[单项选择]According to the passage, when stamps were used the postage would be ______ that in the early 19th century.


A. higher than
B. lower than
C. the same as

[单项选择]According to the passage, when stamps were used, the postage would be ______ that in the early 19th century.


A. higher than
B. lower than
C. the same as

[单项选择]According to the passage, children suffering from autism are unable to _______.


A. play musical instrument.
B. interact with other people.
C. recognize their parents.
D. be invited to birthday parties.

[单项选择]According to the passage, children today expect their parents to ______.


A. give them more independence
B. choose a good job for them
C. live together with them
D. make more money

[单项选择]According to the passage, children who tended to generally progress academically were ______.


A. those whose mothers gave them the most affection
B. those whose fathers worked the night shift
C. those who had no brothers or sisters
D. from one-parent families

[单项选择]According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to ________.


A. encourage them to learn
B. teach them to fear the pain of solving the problem
C. help them learn to deal with pain
D. teach them how to respect from the problem

[单项选择]According to the passage, when should we do when novel ideas appear


A. Discover the aims of their adherents.
B. Ignore them.
C. Follow the fashion.
D. Regard them as normal.

[单项选择]According to the passage, mailsters were likely to tip over because______.


A. even large dogs could cause this to happen
B. they had 3 wheels
C. the mail could shift in the van when cornering over 25 mph
D. of cars lined up behind them

[单项选择]According to the passage, farmers were angry about the tariff because ______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, trees were initially needed by the Nebraskan settlers for ______.


A. shade
B. the prevention of soil erosion
C. the creation of parks
D. construction

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Passage Five
When concerned parents protest the excessive sex or violence on television, they often seek control of television from some outside agency. Our research, however, suggests that the most effective control of TV’ s influence on children can be exerted from within the home.
We have found that there is major obstacle that parents need to overcome in connection with TV viewing. Surprisingly enough, we are going to advocate that parents act rudely—at least as fat’ as the TV set is concerned. Most of us have been socialized all our lives with the warning "Don’ t interrupt when someone else is speaking." Yet our ancestors never imagined a mechanical visitor sitting in the middle of our home who talks without stop and never allows the listener an opportunity to put a word in edgewise.
During our research, we found upon questioning parents that they usually reacted to TV content they disliked or disagreed with by
A. find that their children like to watch those sex or violence TV programs
B. hope that school or society can do something to control bad TV programs
C. feel that they can exert some influences on their children at home only
D. realize that there is a generation gap between them and their children